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in the evolution of intelligence itself these phenomena find 

 their only satisfactory explanation. 



In the chapter on the Evolution of Mind it was shown 

 that the intelligence of any man consists, partly of inner 

 relations adjusted from moment to moment in conformity 

 with the outer relations present in his own environment, and 

 partly of organized and integrated inner relations bequeathed 

 him by countless generations of ancestors, brute and human, 

 and adjusted to the outer relations constantly presented in 

 innumerable ancestral environments. Throughout all time, 

 therefore, since intelligence first appeared upon the earth, 

 the world of conceptions has heen maintained in more or less 

 complete correspondence with the world of phenomena. 

 Just as in the mental evolution of each individual there is 

 preserved a certain degree of harmony with the mental 

 evolution of contemporary and surrounding individuals, so 

 the total evolution of intelligence has kept pace more or 

 less evenly with the changes of the environment with which 

 it has interacted. Sense after sense has assumed distinct 

 existence in response to stimuli from without. One set of 

 experiences after another has been coordinated in harmony 

 with combinations existing without. Emotion after emotion 

 has been slowly generated in conformity with the necessities 

 entailed by outward circumstances. And thus the contem 

 plating mind and the world of phenomena contemplated aie, 

 if I may so express it, tuned in mysterious unison. 



Let us now inquire into the bearing of this fact upon the 

 origin and apparent justification of the teleological theory. 

 We have seen that man has from the earliest times been 

 wont to project ideally his personality into the external 

 world, assimilating the forces of physical nature to the forces 

 displayed in his own volitions, and with unrestrained fancy 

 multiplying likenesses of his own intelligence as means 

 whereby to render comprehensible the agencies ever at work 

 around him. Stronger in the ages of primeval fetishism 



